Black Butterfly Collective
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991879132
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Enterprise, AL, USA
- Phone
- 3342094749
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,488
- Expenses
- $104,669
- Assets
- $14,804
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Quentin Bell (President)
People named in this filing
- Quentin Bell (President)
- Iris Williams (Treasure)
- Latonya Patterson (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Black Butterfly Collective provides mutual aid, community healing, and access to resources for Black trans and gender-expansive people across the South. Programs: Beauty N Brunch (healing events) Joy Boxes (direct support + essentials) Green Guardians (food justice + gardens)
What it reported doing in 2025
The Black Butterfly Collective carried out its exempt purpose by providing community-based programs focused on mutual aid, healing, and food access for Black transgender and gender-expansive individuals. The organization conducted community events designed to provide safe and affirming spaces, including organized gatherings where participants received meals, wellness support, and access to community resources. Program expenses included event supplies, food, and related materials. The organization also distributed care packages ("Joy Boxes") containing essential goods such as hygiene products, safer sex supplies, and basic necessities. These were distributed on a low-barrier, need-based basis, with expenses including supplies, packaging, and distribution costs. In addition, the organization implemented community gardening and food access activities through its Green Guardians program, including installation of raised garden beds, distribution of gardening supplies, and support for small-scale food production. Expenses included soil, tools, and garden materials. The organization also provided community outreach, mutual aid support, and participation in local events aligned with its exempt purpose. Related expenses included supplies, transportation, and general program support costs. These combined activities increased access to essential resources and community-based support.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 86% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.8%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $105K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.